Terraforming Mars

Present Day Mars

Atmosphere

 The atmosphere on Mars is really thin,

only about 1% of what we have on Earth

Temperature

Mars is further away than the sun,

coupled with it's thin atmosphere,

It's temperature is about-63 c

Magnetosphere

Almost no magnetosphere No protection against radiation

Food

Soil infertile for food

Water

Almost all water on Mars today exists as ice

                       Atmosphere

We would have to make it thicker and change it's composition 

Carbon Dioxide can be turned to oxygen through Plant Life.

There are many ways we could do this

One way would be to trigger a green house effect, this would trap heat from the sun and would heat the planet.

Different Ways to do this:

CH4

Methane

By Mining Rocks on Mars

Ammonia

Smashing Ice-rich Comets from the Solar System

                            Water

We can melt Mars' polar ice caps and have water. This would create oceans.

Water can also be extracted from the Martian soil, but it will have to go through various proccesses for it to be drinkable.

                             Food

We would have to make some changes

to the Martian soil, currently it's unfertile Or we can also modify plants into being able to live in the Martian soil.

If done correctly After a long time, forest

would start to appear

                       Magnetospher

If we don't fix Mars' magnetosphere, all

the terraforming process will be useless.

The magnetosphere protects against radiaton, and Mars lacks a magnetosphere.

We would have to create a giant force

field in the direction of the sun.

This Would make Mara Possible for the atmosphere to build up.

                          Energy

At first we can use solar panels for

energy on Mars, but with a bigger

population, we will need to generate

energy from the planet itself.

Remember solar energy is less effecient on Mars than on Earth because of it's distance.

We would need more solar panels

or to switch to another energy source.

                          Gravity

We can't possibly change the gravity

of a planet unless we increased or

decreased it's mass.

3.711 m/s²

9.807 m/s²

Mars' gravity isn't that far off of Earth's

so it's better for humans to adapt to it.

By-Vikash Bharal

Thank You